Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger revealed that hackers claiming to have access to a Disney movie are demanding a ransom. Iger didn't disclose the name of the film, but said Disney isn't paying. The company is which is working with federal investigators.
The global WannaCry "ransomware" cyber attack slowed, with no major infections reported, as global law enforcement agencies shifted their attention to finding the hackers who unleashed it. The attack infected 300,000 machines in 150 countries, said Tom Bossert, U.S. President Donald Trump's homeland security adviser. That would make it one of the fastest-spreading online extortion campaigns in history.
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is taking tougher steps to try and stop fraudulent tech support schemes, which are scamming consumers out of millions of dollars.The agency has launched a new effort, dubbed Operation Tech Trap, to end online scams where customers are tricked into believing their computers are infected with a virus and that they must pay a third party to solve the issue.
A global cyberattack spread to thousands of additional computers as workers logged in at the start of a new workweek. Universities, hospitals, businesses and daily life were disrupted, but no catastrophic breakdowns were reported.
The team at Gizmodo's Special Projects Desk published a report on how they "phished" members of the administration and campaign teams of President Donald Trump. Gizmodo identified 15 prominent figures on Trump's team and sent e-mails to each posing as friends, family members, or associates containing a faked Google Docs link.
Google is making its web application requirements more stringent after a phishing attack tricked lots of Gmail users. The changes mean Google is altering its app publishing process, how it assesses risk, and the look of its user-facing consent page.
Governments, companies and security experts from China to Britain raced to contain the fallout from an audacious global cyberattack amid fears that if they did not succeed, companies would lose their data unless they met ransom demands. The global efforts came less than a day after malicious software, transmitted via email and stolen from the National Security Agency, targeted vulnerabilities in computer systems in almost 100 countries in one of the largest “ransomware” attacks on record.
A 22-year-old U.K.-based threat-intelligence researcher is credited with stumbling onto a “kill switch” embedded in the code of a virus that created an international cyberattack, which helped slow the computer worm’s spread. As part of his research into stopping viruses like this one, he explained in a blog post, he often snaps up such unregistered malware “control” server domains.
U.S. clothing company Brooks Brothers said payment card information of certain customers were compromised at some of its retail locations in the United States and Puerto Rico over 11 months until March. The company said that an unauthorized individual was able to gain access to and install malicious software designed to capture card information on some of its payment processing systems at the locations.
A judge has asked federal prosecutors to investigate Uber for “possible theft of trade secrets” on autonomous car technology from its rival, Alphabet-owned Waymo. The referral to the U.S. attorney escalates a legal battle between Waymo, a self-driving car company, and Uber.
Spain said a large number of companies, including telecommunications giant Telefonica, had been infected with malicious software known as "ransomware" which locks up computers and demands ransoms. Portugal Telecom was also hit by a cyber attack but no services were impacted, a spokeswoman for the company said.
Hospitals across England have been hit by a large-scale cyber-attack, the NHS has confirmed, which has locked staff out of their computers and forced many trusts to divert emergency patients.The IT systems of NHS sites across the country appear to have been simultaneously hit, with a pop-up message demanding a ransom in exchange for access to the PCs.
Sprint and Windstream sued the Federal Communications Commission over a decision that will help AT&T, Verizon, and CenturyLink charge higher prices for certain business Internet services. The FCC last month voted to eliminate price caps for the so-called Business Data Services (BDS) that are offered by incumbent phone companies throughout the country.
Celebrity fitness guru Jillian Michaels won a $5.7 million arbitration ruling against Lionsgate in a dispute over content posted for free on YouTube. Michaels argued that by placing her workout content for free on Lionsgate's BeFit channel, her fans were less likely to pay for her content later on.
Over two dozen HP laptop models have been secretly recording users’ keystrokes, possibly by mistake, according to a Swiss security firm. The keylogger is found within the PCs' audio driver software and has existed since at least Dec. 2015, the security firm Modzero said in a blog post.
A Russian blogger was convicted of inciting religious hatred by playing Pokémon Go in a church and posting a video of it online. He received a suspended sentence of three and a half years.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to bolster government's cyber security and protecting the nation's critical infrastructure from cyber attacks, the White House said, marking his first significant action to address what he has called a top priority. The order seeks to improve the network security of U.S. government agencies, from which hackers have pilfered millions of personal records and other forms of sensitive data in recent years.
The Department of Homeland Security plans to ban laptops in the cabins of all flights from Europe to the United States, European security officials told The Daily Beast. Initially a ban on laptops and tablets was applied only to U.S.-bound flights from 10 airports in North Africa and the Middle East, based on U.S. fears that terrorists have found a way to convert laptops into bombs capable of bringing down an airplane.
An Internet bot may be filing tens of thousands of fake comments to the Federal Communications Commission opposing the agency's net neutrality rules. The purported bot may have filed over 58,000 identical comments against net neutrality, encouraging the FCC to follow through on Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposal to roll back the controversial internet rules.
The European Union’s executive body is considering new rules that would prevent web platforms, such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Amazon.com Inc. and TripAdvisor Inc., from offering unfair terms to small businesses that use their services to sell or promote products. The European Commission said it wants to address complaints by businesses about unilateral contract changes, lack of access to essential sales and customer data and poor transparency regarding companies’ rankings in search results. Companies also lack possibilities for redress to resolve disputes, the EU said.
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